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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:48:58 -0700
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Subject: Re: What is the exected behavior with the NMI button?
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On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 07:17 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> While trying to get a deadlock sorted out in the GPROF code, I attempted
> to use this fancy shmancy NMI button on my Dell server.
> 
> I noted that, not unlike the goggles, it did nothing once the system was
> deadlocked.  I noted that when the system was running normally, an NMI
> log message would be spewed to the console.


In the event you don't get the goggles reference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqfOxm_1BE0

Sean